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Nov 14, 2014 · It's a risky film. Sometimes the risks pay off, sometimes they don't, but the feeling of risk infuses the film with chaos, humor, violence, beauty. "The Homesman" doesn't play things safe, and that's a welcome change. Mary Bee Cuddy ( Hilary Swank) is a middle-aged woman, born in upstate New York, who has bought land in the Nebraska territory.
Nov 22, 2014 · Release Year. 2014. Rating. R. Roy Ivy. November 22, 2014 | 4:00pm ET. Some credits roll when you least expect them. Sometimes it’s relieving, like somebody suddenly remembered to flip the switch, and you can finally go home. And sometimes a jarring credit roll leaves you cold, like the script ran out of pages, or the production ran out of money.
The Homesman is a 2014 Western historical drama film set in the 1850s Midwest and directed by Tommy Lee Jones. Jones, Kieran Fitzgerald, and Wesley Oliver based the screenplay on the 1988 novel of the same name by Glendon Swarthout. The film stars Jones and Hilary Swank and also features Meryl Streep, Grace Gummer, Miranda Otto, Hailee ...
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Nov 20, 2014 · In its setting and in its blunt, unfussy style, director, co-writer and star Tommy Lee Jones’ “The Homesman” is a film out of time. It takes place in 1855, the year after the creation of the ...
Dec 31, 2021 · Belying its novelised origins, The Homesman is all-too-often a series of odd and/or off putting scenes joined by some striking scenery and a compelling central partnership. When it works, beautiful and bestial. RATING: 3/5. INFORMATION. CAST: Hilary Swank, Tommy Lee Jones. DIRECTOR: Tommy Lee Jones
Either that or people were disappointed that The Homesman wasn’t the feminist Western they were expecting—it is a feminist Western, but despite Swank’s strong work and the theme of women mistreated by men, this is still a story about Briggs, and the hardness of the West. There are moments of wry comedy—some of them courtesy of one-scene ...
Nov 14, 2014 · When three women living on the edge of the American frontier are driven mad by harsh pioneer life, the task of saving them falls to the pious, independent-minded Mary Bee Cuddy (Hilary Swank). Transporting the women by covered wagon to Iowa, she soon realizes just how daunting the journey will be, and employs a low-life drifter, George Briggs (Tommy Lee Jones), to join her. Together, they ...
